6/1/2018
Serve millennials in your community by offering personal finance courses
by David Loleng
I recently spoke with a national staff person with another mainline denomination about their efforts with outreach. He told me about a couple churches in Portland, Oregon that were seeing great success offering personal finance courses for church members and people in their local community. Interestingly, one group were very interested and engaged in the finance courses they were offering, that group being millennials.
I stumbled upon the article below as I tried to find out why millennials were so drawn to personal finance training. There are many reasons that churches and leaders are interested in learning more about how to reach out to and serve millennials and hopefully this article will help to inform us as to millennials’ views on finance and challenge us to think of creative ways the church can serve, witness and encourage this group.
Why Millennials talk about money
David Loleng
Rev. David Loleng joined the Presbyterian Foundation in 2016 in a new role established after the Foundation was awarded a $1 million grant as part of Lilly Endowment Inc.’s National Initiative to Address Economic Challenges Facing Pastoral Leaders. David oversees the Foundation’s programs and services related to the Lilly initiative – working to address the many financial challenges that diminish the effective ministry of pastoral leaders in their professional sphere.
He leads the effort to assemble a body of educational materials and tools for effective financial church leadership and administration and make them available to both pastors and lay leaders; develops a comprehensive overhaul of the PC(USA) congregational stewardship system (i.e., how Presbyterians view and raise funds for ministry and mission); and builds on existing and creates new technological means to deliver training, tools, and resources for pastoral and congregational leaders.
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